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contribution to South African literature

...language of the (then) Union of South Africa in 1925. Poets were the outstanding writers of the second movement, which spanned the first two decades of the 20th century. Chief among them were
Eugène Marais, with his disillusioned and compassionate verse on human suffering; Jan F.E. Celliers, a pastoral poet; Jakob Daniel du Toit (Totius), who wrote some of the best elegiacs in...